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March 18, 2011 |

Lawyers Predict Small Impact From White House IP List

IP lawyers said the white paper recommendations, which ranged from increasing the sentences for economic espionage and drug counterfeiting to changing the way music royalties are paid, would likely have only a tenuous effect, if any, on the civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.
5 minute read
October 27, 2009 |

Judge Rules eBay Can Name Forum in Contract With Users

In a growing trend, federal judges are enforcing the "forum selection clause" in eBay Inc.'s standard user agreement, which calls for any dispute to be resolved through a court action filed in Santa Clara County, Calif. "EBay operates around the world and it is not shocking for it to want to focus its legal defense in a particular forum rather than have to litigate in potentially hundreds or thousands of other jurisdictions," a Pennsylvania federal district court judge wrote in an opinion last week.
4 minute read
January 10, 2011 |

CIVIL ACTIONS

The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' official online bulletins.
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April 03, 2012 |

Two-Tiered Conditional Settlements OK'd in Asbestos-Related Case

Eleven insurance companies may be obligated to cover the 33,000 asbestos-related conditional settlements between General Refractories Co. and its former workers, a federal judge ruled last week.
4 minute read
September 06, 2011 |

Judge Throws Out Criminal Defendant's Whistleblower Suit

Legally speaking, it's impossible to sing and blow a whistle at the same time, a federal judge in Harrisburg has ruled.
4 minute read
September 07, 2011 |

Judge Throws Out Former Hospital GC's Whistleblower Suit

U.S. District Judge James M. Munley has dismissed a qui tam whistleblower suit brought by the former general counsel of a hospital group based in the Northern Tier of Pennsylvania after finding that his allegations of fraud weren't the result of voluntary whistleblowing, but instead were made as part of his own guilty plea agreement.
4 minute read
January 05, 2009 |

Superior Court Affirms Dismissal of Derivative Suit

The state Superior Court has upheld a Delaware County judge's dismissal of a derivative suit and ruling that outside counsel can take the lead in an investigation conducted by a company's special committee.
5 minute read
January 08, 2013 |

People in the News

The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel is hosting a luncheon CLE program at noon January 15 at the Philadelphia Racquet Club.
2 minute read
April 19, 2010 |

CIVIL ACTIONS

The following cases were recently filed in the Washington-area district courts. This information is provided by the courts' online bulletins.
3 minute read
December 23, 2008 |

Laterals and New Leadership for Small, Midsized Firms

While the lagging economy's effect on business was an obvious concern for small and midsized firms in 2008, there was no shortage of lateral movement among them for most of the year.
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